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Neena Mahadev
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
neena.mahadev@duke.edu
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Scholarly Works - Book reviews
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil
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American Anthropologist
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September 2025
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The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka's Tsunami Disaster. By Michele Ruth Gamburd. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 234 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).
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The Journal of Asian Studies
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May 2015
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Kapferer, Bruce. Legends of people, myths of state: violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia (new, revised edition). xli, 401 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books (Smithsonian Inst. Press), 2012. £22.00 (paper)
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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September 2013
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